PDFcast has word that Stardock is suing Alexandra Miseta for one million dollars, accusing their former marketing manager of deleting the company's analytics and marketing data before she left the company without notice a few weeks before the release of Elemental: War of Magic, going so far as to say this exacerbated the issues they had to deal with relating to the game's initial problems. Polygon summarizes the situation:

The case alleges that Miseta deleted, destroyed and/or stole Stardock's Elemental materials, analytics, and trade show information just before quitting, causing the company to lose all their marketing data and analytics for Elemental: War of Magic only three weeks before the game's scheduled launch.

Stardock claims that it was forced to spend more than $5000 assessing the damaged caused by Miseta's actions and attempting to restore the Elemental materials, analytics, and trade show information, and that the interruption in availablility of this data caused Stardock to lose more than $1 million in profits.

Stardock says in its filing that the loss of the materials led to a detraction from programming, debugging, and other responsibilities, and Elemental was subsequently unsuccessful in the marketplace, "earning a fraction of its anticipated profits and causing [Stardock] damages of over $1,000,000".

In addition to this, Stardock claims that Miseta did not return the company laptop she had been using, and had in fact been running side businesses during work hours using the company laptop.

Bucky wrote on Aug 16, 2012, 12:18:I use my copy of Brink for that. I'll still pre-order, but now it's knowing full well what might happen.

Haha yeah, Brink was the biggest preorder mistake I've ever made and just reinforced how little the consumer can treat preview material.

I actually liked Brink. Their biggest problem was marketing made the game seem like something that it was not. What it was - a fun take on TF2 that could have used some more levels and post release support.

What it was not - incredibly revolutionary, like the marketing would have you believe. Yes, the movement was nice, but not THAT nice. Yes, the story was fine, but not AWESOME.